{"id":27618,"date":"2026-04-23T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27618"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:00:33","slug":"watch-cbns-classic-documentary-the-hope-as-israel-celebrates-its-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27618","title":{"rendered":"Watch CBN&#8217;s Classic Documentary, &#8216;The Hope,&#8217; as Israel Celebrates Its Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 This week, Israelis celebrated their nation&#8217;s 78th anniversary. As Israel marks this historic independence moment, CBN invites you to watch our classic documentary,\u00a0<em>The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel,\u00a0<\/em>which is available for viewing online.<\/p>\n<p>The film takes viewers on a\u00a0journey through the 50 years that preceded the founding of the modern State of Israel. The history unfolds through the\u00a0eyes of some of Israel&#8217;s visionaries and founders, including Theodore Herzl, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, and Golda Meir.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiring documentary also includes a feature on Sir Winston Churchill and his role in building the new Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>See the entire documentary HERE.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;Independence Day&#8221; excerpt takes a close-up look at the little-known events that took place on the day the Jewish State of Israel was born &#8212; May 14, 1948:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>***Sign up for\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>CBN Newsletters<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0and download the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>CBN News app<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0to ensure you receive the latest updates from a Christian perspective.***<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 This week, Israelis celebrated their nation&#8217;s 78th anniversary. As Israel marks this historic independence moment, CBN invites you to watch our classic documentary,\u00a0The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel,\u00a0which is available for viewing online. The film takes viewers on a\u00a0journey through the 50 years that preceded the founding of the modern State of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1910,2131,616,4775,553,6303,168,2527],"class_list":{"0":"post-27618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-cbns","9":"tag-celebrates","10":"tag-classic","11":"tag-documentary","12":"tag-hope","13":"tag-independence","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}